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Lunch & Speaker: Black Theopolitics in Brazil
Join the College of International Studies and Center for Brazil Studies for a luncheon event featuring Ronilso Pacheco, Baptist pastor, Theologian, Human Rights Activist and Director at the Institute of Religious Studies (ISER).
ISER is a Brazilian civil society organization that produces studies, research, and social interventions in two topics - religion & public space and rights & the justice system.
Please RSVP by Wednesday, September 24th for lunch.
Friday, September 26th, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Farzaneh Hall, Room 142
Dr. Nicholas Barnes will give a presentation on his book, Inside Criminalized Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro.
This lunch and presentation is sponsored by the Center for the Americas, the Center for Brazil Studies, the Center for Peace and Development and the David L. Boren College of International Studies.
Tuesday, October 7th, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Zarrow Hall, Community Room 145
Please RSVP by Monday, October 6th for lunch.
A study co-authored by Michelle Morais, Ph.D., an associate professor in the David L. Boren College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded the best article of 2023 by the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. The article explores the international diffusion and evolution of two public policies: conditional cash transfers and participatory budgeting.
The journal granted free access to the article. Read the full study.
Two CIS faculty members are among the recipients of OU's "Big Idea Challenge 2.0," a program facilitated by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships and designed to foster cross-disciplinary research projects. The projects selected for this year's challenge are focused on solving major worldwide challenges and are expected to attract substantial external funding in the future.
The project involving CIS faculty is titled “Climate Information and Actionable Timescales for Climate Security in Latin America." It is led by Kathy Pegion, an associate professor and Williams Chair in the OU School of Meteorology, with co-principal investigators Fabio de Sa e Silva, Associate Professor of International Studies and Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies in CIS, and Rachel Schwartz, Assistant Professor of International & Area Studies in CIS.
December 12, 2023
Fabio de Sa e Silva, Associate Professor of International Studies, Wick Cary Professor of Brazilian Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Brazil Studies, has co-edited a new book published with FGV Press in Brazil, titled Rule of Law and Authoritarian Populism: Institutional Erosion and Resistance in Brazil (2018–2022). The book includes 13 chapters by 23 authors based in three countries (Brazil, Canada and the U.S.). Contributors examine the fate of institutions, law and democracy in Brazil under former president Jair Bolsonaro.
